Chapter 261: The Treasure in One’s Palm (2)
Chapter 261: The Treasure in One’s Palm (2)
The secret techniques of the Delphiad Swordsmanship was designed to guide heirs to the path of the martial king. Among its secrets, the technique of aura transmission was something Leven didn’t yet need.After all, Karnak had already given him plenty. Leven had been packed full of chaos aura and sent onto the battlefield before they faced future Leven. But Delphiad Swordsmanship contained more than just the ability to train aura on behalf of another.
It held generations’ worth of accumulated wisdom on how the recipient could properly absorb and refine that aura as their own, and right now, Leven was learning those principles from Varos.
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A vast underground chamber was flooded with magical light. Despite being underground, the space shone as brightly as midday. Dozens of expensive mana lamps hung from the ceiling, and their glow illuminated everything.
The chamber was enormous—easily large enough to line up over a hundred soldiers for inspection, even though it was technically inside the mansion. This was the Strauss family’s secret training hall. Like most noble families, they had hidden spaces built into their estates.
It was only natural. Even the Zestrad manor had its own hidden training room, despite lacking any secrets worth protecting. The Strauss family’s swordsmanship harbored the dishonorable secret of aura transmission. They would certainly need a properly, hidden facility.
Varos and Leven were crossing blades inside the secret training room.
Leven launched forward with a shout, his feet kicking off the floor. Blue aura carved brilliant arcs through the air.
—Delphiad Swordsmanship: Storm King’s Barrage!
Leven’s favored flurry of slashes lashed toward Varos’s flanks. Varos calmly twisted his blade to its flat side and diverted the assault before launching a counterattack of his own. Blue and purple aura collided midair again and again. Each time steel met steel, the air quaked and roared.
Varos’s stance suddenly shifted as he blocked Leven’s blade. What he wished to convey from this point on could not be expressed in mere words.